Pot Boy Robbery Reward Issued by Post-Master General
August 27 1738 General-Post-Office reports a single foot robber on the North Mail from London near Kingsland. Reward of two hundred pounds offered on conviction and pardon for any accomplice who reveals the robber’s identity. Description sketches a middle sized man in a light coat and paper mask, with bags from Hartford Peterborough Horncastle Louth and Boston seized. Two men believed to assist stood nearby.
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London
Euxas
Kingsland
Ohn
Jesse
Lost notes and bill seek return for reward in Cheapside
A note dated June 197 payable September 15 to Mary Mitchell and a bill drawn by George Webb on James Dymoke dated August 8 payable one month after are misplaced. Anyone delivering either instrument to Mr John Gurgess in Cheapside will receive half a guinea or five shillings. Note states payment is stopped.
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J. Ost
Richard Hargrave
Mary Mitchell
George Webb
James Dymoke
Edmund Ladlam
John Gturgess
Cheapside
Malachi
Mr. Sturt
Lawrence Howe
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